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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => '1781 days left',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>University drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		I finished up my main assignments for the week,
		Of particular hassle was the maths assignment.
		The instructions given by the textbook for finding the vertex of a parabola are obtuse.
		There&apos;s an easier way, but I needed to show my work, so I used the more difficult method shown by the book.
		After that, in my haste, I misread the directions on a problem. I ended up going about things in a much more difficult manner than I needed to because of that.
		As I went to submit the assignment, I reread the directions, and ended up having to reword my solution slightly.
		I wasn&apos;t going to rework my equation though; that thing was a pain.
		I can&apos;t even get a graphing application to display it properly, but the maths all check out.
		Anyway, we were supposed to come up with a piecewise function that when plotted out, looks like a smiling face.
		What a bizarre request.
		I guess it&apos;s a decent check to see if you understand the concept of piecewise functions though and their limitations.
	</p>
	<p>
		After that, I finished my discussion assignment:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Mother’s Birthday Present was one of the stories I&apos;d considered reading, but the short preview made me think again.
			I thought it was a story of a child &quot;giving&quot; things to her mother but those things being actually for herself, seeing as she picked the peanuts out of the candy and seemed to think the ribbon she gave her mother matched her own hair.
			I should&apos;ve read the rest of the story though.
			Instead, it&apos;s the story of a small child getting scammed, then standing up to the scammer and getting what they came for.
			She had quite a lot of nerve there!
			I enjoyed the story much more than I thought I would.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I suppose the author wrote the piece that short because they could.
			There wasn&apos;t an overly-complex message to it.
			The story simply tells us that death is not to be feared.
			Still, it was pretty short for my tastes.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<p>
		Next came the quizzes.
		Of particular note, I completed both quizzes without getting any problems wrong.
		However, I hadn&apos;t yet read the material for the week in the English course and I&apos;d only read half the material for the maths course.
		Honestly, I&apos;m not going to go back and read the the English material.
		It&apos;s all garbage about $a[APA] junk.
		Who even cares.
		And as I said, I passed the quiz without it; I already know this stuff well enough.
		I&apos;d say this course is useless to me, but let&apos;s be honest: this course is just useless.
		$a[APA] garbage is useless.
		As for the maths material, I started over and read it all from the beginning.
		I&apos;m struggling with the material, and this is the course that actually matters.
	</p>
	<p>
		Y&apos;know, it&apos;s actually pretty easy to motivate me.
		Even though the school&apos;s got me down right now, I&apos;m still highly susceptible to open-ended learning journal assignments.
		Ask me to write about what I&apos;ve read and I&apos;ll actually <strong>*want*</strong> to read.
		Even if I didn&apos;t think the maths work important, I&apos;d be reading it all just because the learning journal assignments in this course ask us to note our struggles with the material.
		It&apos;s not quite as open-ended enough, but it&apos;s still pretty decent.
	</p>
</section>
END
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